Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When it comes to African animation, few names ring as loudly as AfrikaToon. Founded by visionary producer Abel N’guessan Kouame, ...

The African Children's Choir is set to perform several concerts in the Upstate as part of its American tour.

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — About 30 million primary school-aged children in sub-Saharan Africa are not in class, partially because of conflict and poverty, and progress to get them back to school has ...

Most kids don’t cast votes for political leaders or serve as a judge or witness in a trial, but a program in South Africa has children act out those experiences to understand what it means to live in ...

“I never went to a movie until Three2Six took us. I never went to the zoo until Three2Six took us,” says 24-year-old Debbie, a refugee from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. “Most of my childhood ...

Editor's note: This is part three of a three-day series that looks at technologists who are working to assist the world's poor. Click here to read part two, "Finding clean water for the slums of ...

DUNDEE, South Africa — On weekdays, 14-year-old Luyanda Hlali gets up before dawn to fetch firewood and cow dung to start a fire and boil some water before her four siblings and parents wake up. The ...

I have heard some version of “Why should I care about kids with AIDS in Africa?” multiple times since the Trump administration announced the dismantling of USAID, a program that spends just 24 cents ...

Many children help out on family farms in Africa. Nana Kofi Acquah/Flickr Children across the vast expanse of rural Africa hoe, dig, plant, carry, tend livestock, cook, scrub, care for their siblings, ...

We saw baby elephants in Kenya's Maasai Mara and swam with colorful fish in Zanzibar's coral reefs. There was a commotion in the bushes, and then the baby elephants appeared. One by one they trotted ...